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FIVE SYRIAN BLACK SERPENTINE CYLINDER SEALS
CIRCA 2000-1900 B.C.
One engraved with a standing figure, an antelope, a second standing figure, and a bull, a serpent, dagger, and ball staff in the field, a disc and crescent in the sky, 12 x 13.5 mm, one engraved with three worshipers appraoching a couchant antelope with turned head, a plant on its haunches, line border, 23 x 11 mm, one engraved with a standing figure before a bird, behind him a spear and a kneeling figure, a head and wedge in the field, 15 x 9.5 mm, one engraved with two standing figures with one arm raised, and a tree, 12 x 6 mm, and one engraved with two groups of a rampant hare and a standing figure, a schematic plant and star in the field, 15 x 9 mm (5)
CIRCA 2000-1900 B.C.
One engraved with a standing figure, an antelope, a second standing figure, and a bull, a serpent, dagger, and ball staff in the field, a disc and crescent in the sky, 12 x 13.5 mm, one engraved with three worshipers appraoching a couchant antelope with turned head, a plant on its haunches, line border, 23 x 11 mm, one engraved with a standing figure before a bird, behind him a spear and a kneeling figure, a head and wedge in the field, 15 x 9.5 mm, one engraved with two standing figures with one arm raised, and a tree, 12 x 6 mm, and one engraved with two groups of a rampant hare and a standing figure, a schematic plant and star in the field, 15 x 9 mm (5)
Literature
Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984 nos. 371,372,373,374, & 375